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Using an average distance of 93,000,000 miles between the Earth and the Sun, and a diameter of 8,000 miles for the Earth, this would mean the Sun is 11,625 Earth-Diameters away! To put it another way: If the Sun were the size of a regulation 9-inch Basketball, then the Earth would be just a bit bigger than the head of a pin, and located 77 feet away! (The nearest Star/basketball would be about 4,000 miles away!)
If you are asking about the planets in order from the sun it is:
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto (a dwarf planet)
The question is unusual, but we'll take it at face value . . .
The distance from the earth to the sun averages about 93,000,000 miles,
and the earth's diameter is about 8,000 miles. These rough figures are
close enough to pull out a number that will point close to the answer.
If several earths were lined up between our present position and the sun ...
like beads on a string ... it would take (93,000,000 / 8000) of them, or about
11,625 earths
to cover the distance from the earth to the sun.
Of course that depends on how fast you travel and what route you take.
If you could travel from earth to sun in a straight line, then
-- at 100 miles per hour . . . . . 38,750 days = about 106 years
-- at 343 meters per second (speed of sound at sea level) . . . 5,050 days = about 13.8 years
-- at 300,000 kilometers per second (speed of light) . . 8.3 minutes = about 0.00058 day
Earth is the third planet from the sun.
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune
To quote the title of the TV series, the Earth is the "Third Rock from the Sun".
Earth is the fourth smallest planet when you consider Pluto is no longer considered a planet.
The Sun is at a distance of 150 million kilometers; Earth's radius is about 6371 km; the diameter is twice that.
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What number planet is it in terms of proximity to the sun?
Earth is the third planet from the Sun in our solar system, following Mercury and Venus.
What was Copernicus' idea about the earth and the sun?
That the earth revolves around the sun, not that the sun revolves around the earth.
How much time for the moon to revolve around the sun?
The Moon orbits the Earth, and tags along after the Earth. It takes one year - 365.25 days - for the Earth to orbit the Sun once, so that's the number for the Moon as well.
What planet number is the moon?
The moon is not a planet, it is Earth's natural satellite. It orbits around Earth, not the sun like the planets do.
Neptune number of days to orbit around the sun?
Neptune takes about 165 Earth years to orbit around the sun once. This means Neptune's year is equal to approximately 165 Earth years.
In planets what is number of earth from sun?
planet earth is third from the sun
Why do the number of hours of sunlight change as the earth revolves around the sun?
The number of hours of sunlight changes as the earth revolves around the sun because the earth revolves around the sun tilted. Depending on the position of the earth in relation to the sun will determine the number of hours of sunlight emitted towards earth.
What number is earth in the solar-system?
The Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun. (third rock from the sun, you remember that?)
What number planet from the sun is the earth?
Earth is the third planet from the sun in our solar system.
What is the earth's number 1 source of energy?
Sun.
What is the distance from the sun from the earth?
92,955,807.27 miles is the mean Earth-Sun distance. This number is also what is commonly referred to as an astronomical unit.
What ordinal number is earth from the sun?
3rd
Why your earth revolves the sun at number 3?
It is purely random.
Which number of sun from Earth 3 or 9?
The Earth is the third (3rd) planet from the sun. Pluto used to be the 9th planet from the sun, but since Pluto is now called a dwarf planet, there is no planet that is 9th from the sun.
The number of earth day it takes to revolve around the sun?
364.25
Compared to Earth's diameter the sun's diameter is about?
The sun's diameter is about 109 times the diameter of Earth.
What to featutres of motions keep the earth in orbit around the sun?
The mutual forces of gravity between the Earth and sun maintain the Earth's closed orbit. So that's "Gravity" for number-1, that's all there is, and that's all it takes. There is no number-2.
